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Anne is in charge of the Technical
Marketing for the Missouri Kansas Concrete Pipe Association.
Because of her extensive chemical background, she has also
become the Competitive Products Expert for the Association.
She is currently giving eleven seminars, which are all available
for continuing education credits for engineers. |
A comparison of the basic design parameters
for concrete storm sewer pipe and its major competitors, metal pipe
and high-density polyethylene pipe. This seminar covers the strengths
and weaknesses, both physical and chemical, of each different kind
of pipe, including the differences in installation techniques and
examples of good installations for each. Many engineering firms
like to combine this seminar with a tour of a nearby concrete pipe
manufacturing facilities. Seminar lasts about one and a half hours;
the length of the tour varies.
Training seminar on the Pipe Pac software
package. Pipe Pac is a simulation package written by the American
Concrete Pipe Association and the Ontario Concrete Pipe Association
for designing a pipe installation. The simulation can be used for
any type of pipe that the engineer has pricing for and includes
a cost analysis of the pipe envelope and a life cycle cost analysis.
Seminar lasts about one hour.
Primarily designed for construction crews,
inspectors and foremen. In short, this seminar does not go into
the technical material, but addresses the hands-on practices that
are recommended by manufactures and agencies for installing each
kind of storm sewer pipe.
A presentation of the basics of designing culverts
based on the flow characteristics of the structure in comparison
to the environmental needs of the installation. This seminar also
has examples working with inlet and outlet control. Seminar lasts
about one hour.
Training seminar for a simulation software package
for designing storm water retention basins. Within this software,
the engineer can choose which calculation procedure the program
will use, TR-55, TR-20, HEC-1 or the Modified Rational Method. Because
this program uses the Pipe Pac 2000 software for cost calculations
it is optimum to attend that presentation before this one. This
software has been very well received in the engineering communities
of larger metropolitan areas, especially the Chicago area where
it was first introduced.
As design processes turn to software, it is easy
to lose sight of the principles that same software is based on.
This seminar goes back to the heart of the design process and reviews
the methods involved in calculating the load above a buried pipe.
We will do some problems so bring your calculators and your blue
“Concrete Pipe Design Manuals.”
An in-depth look at exactly how aluminized steel
pipe functions in the environment. It highlights what the corrosion
experts say, and reviews most of the national studies that are available
concerning aluminized steel pipes. Seminar lasts about one hour.
This seminar reviews the structural components
of high-density storm sewer pipe; how the pipe is manufactured and
how the environment affects or does not affect the pipe. Also included
are reviews of the recommended installation procedures by ASTM,
AASHTO, and Bureau of Reclamation Standards. Seminar lasts about
one hour.
Ideal for engineers and inspectors who are going to spend time on pipe installation job sites or those who are going to video concrete pipe lines. The seminar goes through the proper installation of reinforced concrete pipe, but more importantly covers the problems that can be encountered when installing concrete pipe. About half of the seminar is photos of concrete pipe with cracks. We discuss what caused the crack, whether or not the crack is a problem, and how to fix the problem if there is one.
The design of reinforced box culverts is often misunderstood. This seminar covers the design of RBC's, what national specifications are involved in that design, the application of RBC's, and finally a virtual tour of the manufacturing of RBC's.
Concrete Pipe joints have long been a subject that needs clarification. This seminar reviews every concrete pipe joint that is available; when they should be specified, how those joints are designed, how they are manufactured and how they should be installed. Additionally, the seminar describes the ASTM specifications for each joint so that the engineers learn not just when, but how the individual joints should be specified.
Anne received her B.S. in Chemistry, and
her M.S. in Chemical Engineering, both from Oklahoma State University.
During her years at OSU, she was selected as the Outstanding Analytical
Chemistry Student and was twice a Lew Wentz Scholarship Winner.
She was also elected to Omega Chi Epsilon, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and
Alpha Epsilon Delta.
After graduation, she went to work for Allied
Signal (now Honeywell) in Kansas City as a Process Engineer. There
she was responsible for all wet processes within the manufacturing
of printed circuit boards including the clean-up of all process
fluids. She also performed pre-production engineering of single-sided,
double-sided, and multi-layer printed circuit boards and flexible
and rigid/flex circuits.
She left Allied-Signal and went to work as a Technical
Sales Engineer for Jet Tech, Inc., in Edwardsville, Kansas. There
she provided engineering designs and engineered proposals for commercial
and community wastewater treatment systems.
For the last ten years, she has served as a Sales
Engineer for a small consulting engineering firm, Peak Street Energy.
With Peak Street, a portion of her time was spent selling engineering
services, but she spent a greater part of her time performing over
200 in-depth energy analysis studies for a wide range of clients.
As far as hobbies, Anne has taught aerobics
classes and played competitive volleyball for the last 15 years.
She also loves speaking in public, and has made presentations at
national meetings of such organizations as the Association of Energy
Engineers and the National Association of Corrosion Engineers.
© 2000 Missouri Kansas Concrete Pipe
Association
P.O. Box 23006, Overland Park, KS 66283
(913) 402-9830, fax (913) 851-8981
MarkC@mokanconcretepipe.org
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